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Daybook from Wide World of News newsletter

* Kamala Harris

2:50pm ET: the Vice President will depart Washington, DC en route to Houston, TX

7:15pm ET: the Vice President will deliver remarks at a political event

8:15pm ET: the Vice President will deliver remarks at Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc.’s 60^thInternational Biennial Boule

* Donald Trump

11:00am ET: the former President is scheduled to address the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago, IL

6:00pm ET: the former President holds a rally in Harrisburg, PA

* Joe Biden

10:00am ET: the President receives the President’s Daily Brief

11:00am ET: the President receives a briefing on the implementation of important provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act

12:45pm ET: the President will have lunch with the Vice President

2:30pm ET: the President receives a briefing on the Administration’s new actions and ongoing work to crack down on drug traffickers smuggling deadly drugs, including fentanyl, into the United States, and efforts to beat the global opioid epidemic

3:45pm ET: the President meets with U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine’s Economic Recovery Penny Pritzker

* JD Vance

8:00pm ET: the Vice Presidential Nominee is set to hold a rally in Glendale, AZ

* Doug Emhoff

12:30pm ET: the Second Gentleman will deliver remarks at a campaign event in Concord, NH

4:40pm ET: the Second Gentleman will deliver remarks at a campaign event in Yarmouth, ME

* Jill Biden

No official public events